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• Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

  Krista Tippett

  Work, Compassion, Vocabulary

  "Reconnecting with compassion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. November 2010.

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• Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, High Standards, Mediocrity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

  William Thorsell

  Time, Stress, Pay

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• Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

  James Salter

  Book, Ideas, Levels

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• It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

  Grigori Perelman

  Ethical Standards, People, Aliens

  "TIL a Russian mathematician solved a 100 year old math problem. He declined the Fields medal, $1 million in awards, and later retired from math because he hated the recognition the math community gives to people who prove things", rebrn.com.

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• The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with joy every Number as it comes forth from the press as an additional reflector of 'the light that shines from Zion's hill.

  George Q. Cannon

  Numbers, Light, Zion

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• By today's standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today's U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence.

  Joseph Sobran

  Kings, Impact, Government

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• Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Democratic, Ifs

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• Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

  J. R. D. Tata

  Perfect, Quality, Cleanliness

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• The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace.

  Kimberlee Green

  Educational, Successful, College

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• Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Ocean, Men

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• The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, Ethical Standards, Understanding

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• Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Men, Order, Soul

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• I've had a dozen people tell me, maybe more, 'What would have happened if Michael Brown had shot and killed Darren Wilson? Do you think he would be free right now? Do you think he would not have been charged by now?' People just see this manifest double-standard in front of them that's coming at the long line of a whole bunch of grievances that have built up over time because of the dynamics of Ferguson and frankly, the dynamics of race in America more broadly.

  Chris Hayes

  Thinking, America, Race

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• Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

  Ernst Cassirer

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

  Ernst Cassirer, Yale University. Louis Stern Memorial Fund (1944). “An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture”, New Haven : Yale University Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press

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• I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest company by far in the industry and I am willing to speak out. I don’t see any compelling reason for the government to allow people to gamble on the Internet and nobody has ever explained except for the two companies whose special interest is going to be served if there is gaming on the Internet, Caesars and MGM.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Compelling Reason, Government, Speaks Out

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• We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

  DeLoss Dodds

  School, Years, Missouri

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• Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained? Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?

  Michael Dorris

  Order, Historical, Perception

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• The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

  T. S. Eliot

  Greatness, Literature, Determined

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they didn't live their lives with earthly vanities, but they lived their lives for eternal verities. And I think that if we might catch that enthusiasm and the reality of resurrection, we would live by a completely different standard as well.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Writing, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.

  Hedi Slimane

  Beautiful, Hipster, Needs

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• Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

  Malcolm X

  Godly, Land, People

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.282, Ballantine Books

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• True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Men, Rising

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• In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Different, Modesty

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